From the monthly archives: August 2008
Avast ye, mateys! A couple of announcements and some cool happenings around blogsphere….
This week:
Friday we kick off another weekend with an author: this time it’s Susan Holloway Scott. We will be reviewing her new book, The King’s Favorite – A Novel of Nell Gwyn and King Charles II, on Friday and on Saturday [...]
For this episode’s unearthings: the wonderful works of Christopher Pike!
Any other Christopher Pike fans in the house? Anyone that grew up in the 80s and 90s is familiar with a few key authors that [...]
Title: Hunter Kiss
Author: Marjorie Liu
Genre: Urban Fantasy
Stand alone or series: Prequel to the Hunter Kiss series
Summary: “My mother used to say that the tale of the world is drawn in blood, blood in flesh, veins forking into destiny like the branches of the tree from which the [...]
Title: The Huntress – Year One
Author: Ivory Madison, Cliff Richards, Art Thibert,Jason Wright, and Sal Cipriano
Genre: Comic Books
Stand Alone or Series: Huntress – Year One issues #1-6, in [...]
Thea and I have met a couple of years ago at a Lost message board. Both of us being fans of the show and spoiler whores, we pretty much spent a few hours every day talking online and discussing the show. One day, we exchanged a Private Message and realised that we both loved books. [...]
Wow! Is anyone else looking forward to this? No? Just me?
It looks so so sooooooo good!
For this week’s ponderings:
What’s the best moment of emotional personal triumph (of the pump your fist in the air variety) in a movie?
The Karate Kid – Daniel-san single-handedly kicks the asses of all the mother f*ckers in the Cobra Kai dojo
Rocky, Rocky II, [...]
Title: For A Few Demons More
Author: Kim Harrison
Genre: Urban Fantasy
Stand alone or series: Fifth book in the Rachel Morgan/The Hollows series
Why did I read this book: I love Rachel Morgan. Kim Harrison is my hero. The first four books were absofreakinglutely brilliant. Need I elaborate further?
Summary: [...]
Tagged! Not by slimer though. This time from Aidan of A Dribble of Ink!
Copy the list below.
Mark in bold the movie titles for which you read the book.
Italicize the that you’ve watched.
Tag 5 people to perpetuate the meme. (You may of course play along anyway.)
THEA’S:
1. Jurassic [...]
Title: Manhunter – Street Justice
Author: Mark Andreyko, Jesus Saiz, Jimmy Palmiotti, and Steve Buccellato
Genre: Graphic Novel, Superhero
Stand alone or series: Part of Mark Andreyko’s Manhunter run, collects issues 1-5
Summary: (from DCComics.com)
When top federal prosecutor Kate Spencer loses a case against a super-villain–setting him free to kill [...]
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